>It strikes me as awfully out of touch because that's exactly what we've been doing all along,
Well this is not quite right. Many people (especially young people) actually don't vote, especially in the smaller local elections that elect people like your police chief. The two party system in the US is broken but young people not voting makes it worse.
Politics would looks very different if 90% of millennials started showing up to vote. Dare I suggest they might even start running for office?
https://i.imgur.com/F9kdJqL.gif
https://img1.quotesuniverse.com/quotes/01/noam-chomsky-quote...
People, including the young, are demotivated by rigged games.
Also elections are what, every 2-4 years? That's a very infrequent cycle. Currently there are no elections going on at the moment, so what do you want these protesters to do, wait patiently until November?
For example, you could delegate on Bill Gates because his opinions are already gathered on topics such as a carbon tax and basic income [2]. This data is added by people & bots from Bill Gates' blog, tweets, newspapers, etc.
[1] https://hectorperezarenas.com/2019/08/31/2-step-votings-for-...
[2] https://agreelist.org/a/basic-income https://agreelist.org/a/carbon-tax
That's not to say the former doesn't exist, just that we should be careful in how we account. Look, for instance, at the "approval rates" of "congress" versus the approval rates of "my congressperson".
It strikes me as awfully out of touch because that's exactly what we've been doing all along, yet we don't see the results we want. So either it's our fault because we just suck at this voting thing, or there are systemic inefficiencies in our elective representative democracy.
Liquid democracy seems to be the ideal form of democracy because it gives every citizen the freedom to vote directly on the issues, or to delegate their vote if they wish. Liquid democracy was not technically feasible in 1787 when the U.S. Constitution was written, but technology has come a long way since then.
It's a shame that it's almost considered sacrilege to even suggest that the political system our founding fathers devised over 200 years ago may not actually be perfect in 2020, and could be improved with some modernization.